A climate hunger strike held publicly in central Berlin has been called off after 92 days.
The decision was made on Thursday because Chancellor Olaf Scholz had neither changed course on Germany’s global warming policy nor tried to engage in a discussion with the hunger strikers, according to the campaign called ‘Starve until you are honest’ .
Eight people had participated in the strike at various times since it began on March 7, when Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick stopped taking solids. He spent 92 days without solids, and fellow striker Richard Cluse 77 days.
The aim was to provoke Scholz into a statement acknowledging that civilization was endangered by the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
“Instead of telling the truth about the climate crisis, Scholz prefers to talk about fighting the symptoms,” the activists said on Thursday.
The hunger strikers drank small amounts of fruit juice for long periods of time to maintain their energy levels. Metzeler-Kick, 49, quit and ended up in the hospital earlier this month.
The hunger strikers lived in a tent camp in the government district in central Berlin.
